Due to unforeseen circumstances we’ve had to change the venue for our ReMantle & Make Showcase event, 6.30-8pm, Friday 17th March, to: MAKLab MakeSpace, Glasgow This is only a 2 minute walk away from GSA along Renfrew Street, towards Charing Cross. This was also where we had our first Re-Make-a-Thon event, so provides a fitting…

To wrap up the ReMantle and Make circular economy study we are hosting our final showcase where we will exhibit the great items designed using surplus Scottish textiles. Come along to meet the designers, the ReMantle team and find out more about circular textiles in Scotland.

The second of our two Re-make-a-thons took place in the Glasgow School of Art’s new Highlands and Islands Creative Campus on the Altyre Estate just outside of Forres. We were joined by some of the participants from the first Re-Make-a-Thon held at MakLab in Glasgow, with the welcome addition of some new faces from around the…

The initial stages of our research explorations for ‘Re-Mantle and Make’ has involved approaching some of the largest textile manufacturing mills and factories in Scotland such as; Johnsons of Elgin, Begg and Company, MYB Textiles and the Scottish Leather Group. They have all generously supported this research by gifting pre-consumer textile surplus including; leather offcuts, cashmere…

The first of two Re-Make-a-Thons took place at MAKLab in Glasgow on Friday, 13th January. Textile designers from around Scotland gathered to learn and explore the challenges of establishing a circular economy within Scotland’s textile industry, as well as to get busy re-making. The all-day workshop set the challenging brief of using only surplus materials…

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Remantle and Make

The project is a six-month feasibility study titled ‘Re-Mantle and Make’ led by the Glasgow School of Art. This research is funded by a larger project titled ‘Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing’, a two-year research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The larger project is led by the Royal College of Art, London, and explores the role of maker spaces in redistributed manufacturing (RdM).Our study will be undertaken in partnership with Kalopsia Collective, a micro-manufacturing unit based in Edinburgh, Scotland and MakLab maker space in Glasgow.

Together we will conduct practice-led research to produce a small collection of fashion accessories within a circular economy model. In addition to the collection we will prototype a potential future maker space for circular textile design to scope what tools, techniques, equipment and materials might be required for a future sustainable manufacturing scenario. Our study aims to explore the barriers and opportunities to implementing a close loop innovation within the textile sector and on what scale it could be possible, and the role maker spaces could have in a sustainable future for design.